Author: NBTC
South Korea is gearing up to elect a new president on June 3. And while the election may be more dominated by other issues in Korean politics, such as the recent impeachment of the previous president, candidates have positioned digital assets as a key campaign issue in a nation where nearly one-third of citizens own crypto. Dr. Sangmin Seo, a South Korean technologist who leads the Kaia DLT Foundation, views crypto as becoming increasingly politically instrumental. “This election, Korean politics sees crypto as a narrative to gain voters’ favors, positioning it as another national growth engine besides AI and semiconductors,”…
$TOKEN gains 5.09% after Revolut adds support for over 50M users across 25+ currencies. Price jumps despite 11.9% drop in volume, hinting at shift toward holding behavior. Revolut listing boosts fiat access, widening $TOKEN’s reach beyond traditional exchanges. TokenFi’s native cryptocurrency, $TOKEN, has been added to Revolut, a leading European finance platform. The move expands $TOKEN’s availability to over 50 million users, who can now purchase the asset using more than 25 fiat currencies, including USD, EUR, and GBP. The integration will enable direct access through the Revolut app, a platform that processed over $1.3 trillion in volume and added…
Symbiotic, a universal staking protocol and EigenLayer rival, has launched Relay, a software development kit (SDK) that allows protocols to stake assets on Ethereum and verify that stake across any blockchain. Staking is a system for securing blockchains in exchange for rewards. In staking systems, so-called validators commit callateral — called “stake” — for a role in processing transactions. “Restaking” protocols like Symbiotic let users reuse stake across multiple blockchains at once, offering investors the opportunity to earn extra yield. Relay is, in essence, a generalized version of Symbiotic’s restaking tech — a toolkit that can bring Symbiotic-style restaking to…
A newly confirmed bearish shark harmonic pattern has formed on Bitcoin’s intraday chart, pointing to a potential retracement in the short term. With the value area high now under pressure and volume metrics signaling a lack of strong buyer commitment, Bitcoin may be setting up for a healthy pullback into deeper volume-supported zones. Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest move higher has brought it into technically significant territory, but not without warning signs. A bearish shark harmonic has emerged, suggesting a possible reversal following the recent grind to local highs. As price tests the value area high (VAH), a key inflection point is…
Singapore, Singapore, June 12th, 2025, Chainwire Defx, a new Layer 1 built for trading, has announced a $2.5 million seed round to launch a dark pool DEX for perpetual futures trading – where order flow, position sizes, leverage, long/short exposure, and liquidation thresholds are all fully encrypted using zero-knowledge tech, while transaction integrity remains publicly verifiable onchain. Investors include Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, CoinShares, Robot Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, Baboon VC, and angel investors like Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon) and Mahin Gupta (Liminal). The funding will support the development and launch of Defx’s Layer 1 blockchain for real-time, on-chain trading…
Ethereum Price to Hit $3K This Week? Vitalik’s Scaling Vision Sparks Bullish Momentum Ethereum ($ETH) is heating up once again. After weeks of sideways movement, the second-largest cryptocurrency is showing renewed strength—and it’s not just about the charts. Two major updates have triggered a wave of bullish sentiment that could push ETH past the $3,000 mark this week. Let’s break down what’s driving the momentum and whether Ethereum is finally ready to reclaim its position above this critical psychological and technical level. By TradingView – ETHUSD_2025-06-03 (YTD) Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Layer 1 to Scale 10x in 12 Months In a…
MetaWealth revealed that it now comes in the top 10 global real-world assets (RWA) Tokenization platforms, having users from 23 countries. The platform has so far tokenized properties across various countries such as Romania, Spain, Greece, and Italy. It has also facilitated more than $50 million in tokenized transactions. APS, a fund manager from Europe, purchased $3.4 million in tokenized real estate through MetaWealth. After this step, the fund manager made the first direct institutional purchase of retail-accessible tokenized assets. APS is the manager of 12 billion euros or $13.7 billion in assets, bought 3 million euros or $3.4 million…
A billion dollars in fresh Tether (USDT) just got minted. The massive minting, which Whale Alert spotted, happened on the Tron network early Monday. It was just over $1,000,799,999 USDT. That is no small change — especially not when it happens right when Bitcoin (BTC) hits $106,000 after a mixed weekend. The timing here feels like it was chosen for a reason. Bitcoin was already showing signs of recovery after dipping deep earlier this week, but the fresh infusion of stablecoin liquidity might just be the spark it needed. Actually, BTC bounced right back from the $105,000 zone and rallied…
Key Takeaways Coinbase will offer 24/7 XRP and Solana futures trading starting June 13. The exchange’s continuous trading is a first for a CFTC-regulated derivatives platform in the US. Coinbase announced today it will extend its 24/7 futures trading to include XRP and Solana (SOL) contracts starting June 13, aiming to offer US traders compliant access to altcoin derivatives amid shifting regulatory dynamics. Starting June 13, we’re enabling 24×7 trading for $XRP and Solana ( $SOL ) futures, unlocking real-time access to U.S. traders, reflecting the always-on nature of crypto markets. — Coinbase Institutional 🛡️ (@CoinbaseInsto) May 29, 2025 The…
Dimitra, a blockchain-based agricultural technology company, has partnered with Layer 1 blockchain platform MANTRA to bring real-world agricultural assets on-chain. Jon Trask, Dimitra’s founder CEO, told CoinDesk at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas last week that the partnership aims to eventually bring a billion dollars worth of agricultural assets, starting with cacao in Brazil and carbon credits in Mexico, onto MANTRA’s blockchain. Trask added that the two pilot projects with MANTRA are currently small in scale — in Brazil, only 25 of the 374 cocoa farmers in Brazil’s so-called “cocoa pole” in the southern region of Roraima are currently signed…